Internal diaspora and settlement: a study of the Rajbanshi Diaspora in Jaipur city, Rajasthan

This paper studies the settlement of the Rajbanshi diaspora in Jaipur city, Rajasthan after their arrival from Koch Bihar, West Bengal. Ethnographic study helped in understanding their preference of settlement. The study revealed that the Rajbanshi diaspora preferred to settle among their own community members without reproducing their social stratification in their residential pattern in Jaipur city, Rajasthan. However, the concentration of this diaspora was not the result of any isolationist compulsion created by the original residents. Neither has it showed a tendency towards heterolocalism. Nevertheless, the Rajbanshi settlement reveals a partial residential segregation.